Wait, hold on, how isn't the game industry not preserving anything? When a new video format comes out, movie companies re-release their old movies on the new media. When a new console comes out, game makers either re-release their old games in packs playable on new consoles, or console manufacturers make emulators on which the original game can be bought and played, not to mention backwards compatibility. How is that any different? And how isn't the game idsutry preserving anything given this?
Games are made and there is no attempt to preserve them for the future.
What kind of idiot could mod that insightful? Has nobody here ever heard about emulators? Well of course you cannot run a C64 game directly on top of Windows XP, but that's what the hell emulators are for! Hell, you can even play the original Spacewar! from 1961! Not to mention I once played a tic-tac-toe game written in 1949 thanks to a ENIAC emulator.
The "attempts to preserve them for the future" consist in writting emulators. Emulators provide you the most faithful experience possible to the original on your PC. There are few machines on which you could play game that haven't been emulated, and therefore there are very few 10+ year old games you can not play with your PC.
Maybe in addition to a terrorist watch list we should have a not-a-terrorist-don't-watch list. Just a thought.
Imagine a terr'ist slips in the white-list, and that we found out, we'll be like "oh my gosh there's terrists in the not-a-terrist-list OMG even the non-terrist arabs and such are terrists!!!"
I agree, even if one day we need 40 GB encryption keys to stay safe from enourmous quantum key breakers, we need to make sure we can always legally use an encryption level that makes decryption of eavesdropped data by such orgasnism as the NSA at least impratical, at best nearly impossible.
Ask yourself, would you use the New and Improved Graphics Generation and Enhancement pRogram? Would you tell your friends about it? Would you suggest it to your boss?
Oh crap.. maybe that's why so few people want to mess around with my ARSE, I mean my Analysis and Reconstruction Sound Engine.
Imagine how things would be if that whole "OMG WAL*MART WON'T SELL IT" thing applied to porn! Well we'd have no porn!
I mean yeah, nobody cares. My point is, it's as if you considered that films are made for families to view, that porn movies cannot be watched in family (please if you have an anecdote to prove it can I don't wanna hear it), so that therefore porn movies shouldn't be made/distributed. It should go the same way for adult video games, let's assume this category the way we assume porn.
The idea is that the closer to the perfect compressor you have, the closer to artificial intelligence you are.
If by artificial intelligence you mean strong AI, then I disagree. as perfect as a compressor could be, even if switching some bit in the compressed data resulted in something else in the decompressed result that made sense, and even if you used that to reply something senseful to a human speaker and thus pass the Turing test, you wouldn't have a strong AI, because the program still wouldn't know what it's doing (the Turing test is not a strong AI test).
Only this time, the megalomaniac will have nukes, and since he's not just a power-hungry despot but a religious fanatic, he won't be afraid to use them.
What a steaming pile of FUD. To depict the Iranian president as a megalomaniac religious fanatic is just exagerated, and it's an outright lie to pretend he's not afraid of using them.
People need to stop with this whole "OMG IRAN HAS TEH NUX THERE GONNA GET US!!111" thing, cause that's plain retarded. Iran knows pertinently well that if they try to nuke anyone, there will be a rain of ICBM's on their entire country, because we wouldn't need much more of a reason to push the big red buttons. So why does Iran want nukes so bad? Remember a couple of years ago when the Bush administration was reportedly considering invading Iran? Well now that Iran has nukes, it's not gonna happen. Why not? Because you just don't invade a country that *actually* has WMD's, unless you want to get WMDed, which by the way shows that the Bush administration knew pertinently well that Iraq had no WMD's prior to invading.
So here it is for all you insensitive clods, Iran is not getting nukes to attack anyone, for that would be pure suicide, they're getting nukes because they don't want to end up like Iraq. Sometimes I wonder what you guys are thinking, but most likely you don't even a second put yourselves in the place of Iranians.
Unfortunately, I no longer know exactly where it is.
Oh, that's too bad. Reminds me that the wrap-drive based ship I built must be out of the solar system by now. Worst part is that the thing got off before I got to fetch my camera, and on top of that I forgot the blueprints in the cabin..
the chance that this one person has received every part from the 1-2% of doomed 360s out there that are failures would be nearly statistically impossible.
Great point, if we accept that 2% figure as a maximum, and we consider there are about 10 million people who have Xboxes (I don't think it's that much actually), then that kind of stuff has 1 chance out of 400,000,000,000 of *ever* happening on Earth. For it to even stand a chance to ever happen, 25% of all Xboxes shall be "doomed".
I leave the conclusion as to why these Xboxes have failed for that guy up to you, I guess all it really reveals is that maybe Xboxes 360's are more fragile than other consoles tho.
How novel! How revolutionary! A very high-res screen! Let me be the first to predict the 70 GHz CPU, the 40 TB hard drive and the 100 Gbps home internet connection!
2. The Midair Mouse
Other people have pointed out why this idea is flawed, I mean come on, it's obvious enough..
3. The Perfect Machine
If I understand correctly, a quantum computer wouldn't be suited for home/office use, since it's good at performing pretty special kind of operations. Not to mention I don't think we're that close to the quantum computer at all..
4. Extreme Peer-to-Peer
FTFA : The classic point-to-point networking model is fundamentally flawed.
Of course not, it's flawed when it comes to broadcasting, but for anything else on internet, EVEN for video streaming on demand à la YouTube. Besides that, the whole "extreme" P2P isn't worthless, but it's no big deal, and then it will bring its lot of issues, and anyways, that's what caches and proxies have already done for a long time.
5. The Man-Made Brain
Despite the misleading title that suggest it's about strong AI wet dreams, it's pretty interesting, but yeah, not much to say about it..
This is going to be good for some people, but what happens when these people take of the electrodes and discover they still can't walk. I would think it would make them worse.
IANAP, but when I play a with a flight simulator for a few hours, the last thing I want is to fly an actual plane. Same for sex, kind of, so I'd say, if as a paraplegic you took a 4 hour walk in Oblivion or the countryside of San Andreas, you'd want to take an actual walk less than before you started playing, mainly if you use your brain to send walking signals to your disconnected legs.
Your robotic limb point is a great point by the way, I wonder why they don't use the presented technology to control a real wheel-chair rather than a lame virtual avatar, at this point.
But say that 22 yr old had a child, who turned out to be a pretty important guy who could be embarrassed about his fathers misdeeds.
Right, just like George H.W. Bush got embarrassed with this thing about his father Prescott with what he did with the nazis in WWII, or like the Mussolinis have been embarrassed about what their father/grand-father Benitto did (one of his grand-daughters is now a neo-fascist politician in the Parliment IIRC plus a model). And then, if you start to care about the children, then why not about grand-children, and so on, to the point you'd make these 70 years 250?
"after the an internal report"
"a Baltimore sun story"
"fort Meade"
Not to mention grammatical mistakes and some awkward turns of phrases. It all makes me wonder, since when have Slashdot editors stopped editing summaries?
They are still working on sending a man to Bahgdad and keeping him alive there.
Does it mean that John McCain and that Senator Pence from Illinois didn't really go to a market in Baghdad and come back to the USA?! So it was an hoax too!?
I knew it couldn't be just like "any open-air market in Indiana in the summertime"!
So we can find out the truth about who killed JFK with their magic bullets.
Let me bet a few bucks on Cubans. Castro survived hundreds of american assassination attempts which for a lot of them have been ordered directly by JFK and RFK. Makes sense that the guys who didn't manage to prevent the guy they miserably failed at killing and who succesfully killed the guy they were supposed to protect tried to hide that to avoid sounding incompetent. IIRC, Johnson agrees with me (or maybe it's the other way around..).
Kudos to the cuban guy in charge of Castro's security tho!
The JFK files are due to be released 70 years (the life expectancy) after the facts.
I think it has more to do with protecting people involved. Let's say a 22-year old person was involved, 70 years later he'll be 92, which means most likely dead.
That's the question every developer on the planet would love to answer. "If I saw a whole new genre that needed to be created, I'd probably go create it myself," says Warren Spector. "The fact is, no one can predict a new genre's creation. I feel pretty safe in saying that someone, probably a 12-year-old staring at the ceiling avoiding doing her homework, will create something entirely new in the next 20 years, but I wouldn't presume to say what that might be."
Translation : we don't know what will be created within the next 20 years, but one thing's for sure, new things will be created, and some of them might be created by people who currently are children. Or to make it simpler, we don't know what will happen in the future, but things will happen, and young people who'll grow up in the future will make some of these things happen.
And about how long games should last, what about the next trend is not games which have a defined duration like adventure games do, but rather an undefined duration, like, open ended games? Why should we have nothing but games that can be completed? And why so much emphasis on having stories? If we cared so much about stories when we want to have fun, then how come we now have nothing but plot-less porn movies?
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Wait, hold on, how isn't the game industry not preserving anything? When a new video format comes out, movie companies re-release their old movies on the new media. When a new console comes out, game makers either re-release their old games in packs playable on new consoles, or console manufacturers make emulators on which the original game can be bought and played, not to mention backwards compatibility. How is that any different? And how isn't the game idsutry preserving anything given this?
Games are made and there is no attempt to preserve them for the future.
What kind of idiot could mod that insightful? Has nobody here ever heard about emulators? Well of course you cannot run a C64 game directly on top of Windows XP, but that's what the hell emulators are for! Hell, you can even play the original Spacewar! from 1961! Not to mention I once played a tic-tac-toe game written in 1949 thanks to a ENIAC emulator.
The "attempts to preserve them for the future" consist in writting emulators. Emulators provide you the most faithful experience possible to the original on your PC. There are few machines on which you could play game that haven't been emulated, and therefore there are very few 10+ year old games you can not play with your PC.
Maybe in addition to a terrorist watch list we should have a not-a-terrorist-don't-watch list. Just a thought.
Imagine a terr'ist slips in the white-list, and that we found out, we'll be like "oh my gosh there's terrists in the not-a-terrist-list OMG even the non-terrist arabs and such are terrists!!!"
I agree, even if one day we need 40 GB encryption keys to stay safe from enourmous quantum key breakers, we need to make sure we can always legally use an encryption level that makes decryption of eavesdropped data by such orgasnism as the NSA at least impratical, at best nearly impossible.
Ask yourself, would you use the New and Improved Graphics Generation and Enhancement pRogram? Would you tell your friends about it? Would you suggest it to your boss?
Oh crap.. maybe that's why so few people want to mess around with my ARSE, I mean my Analysis and Reconstruction Sound Engine.
Imagine how things would be if that whole "OMG WAL*MART WON'T SELL IT" thing applied to porn! Well we'd have no porn!
I mean yeah, nobody cares. My point is, it's as if you considered that films are made for families to view, that porn movies cannot be watched in family (please if you have an anecdote to prove it can I don't wanna hear it), so that therefore porn movies shouldn't be made/distributed. It should go the same way for adult video games, let's assume this category the way we assume porn.
I visit Zombo.com and have a necessary minute of relaxation and medition
The idea is that the closer to the perfect compressor you have, the closer to artificial intelligence you are.
If by artificial intelligence you mean strong AI, then I disagree. as perfect as a compressor could be, even if switching some bit in the compressed data resulted in something else in the decompressed result that made sense, and even if you used that to reply something senseful to a human speaker and thus pass the Turing test, you wouldn't have a strong AI, because the program still wouldn't know what it's doing (the Turing test is not a strong AI test).
Only this time, the megalomaniac will have nukes, and since he's not just a power-hungry despot but a religious fanatic, he won't be afraid to use them.
What a steaming pile of FUD. To depict the Iranian president as a megalomaniac religious fanatic is just exagerated, and it's an outright lie to pretend he's not afraid of using them.
People need to stop with this whole "OMG IRAN HAS TEH NUX THERE GONNA GET US!!111" thing, cause that's plain retarded. Iran knows pertinently well that if they try to nuke anyone, there will be a rain of ICBM's on their entire country, because we wouldn't need much more of a reason to push the big red buttons. So why does Iran want nukes so bad? Remember a couple of years ago when the Bush administration was reportedly considering invading Iran? Well now that Iran has nukes, it's not gonna happen. Why not? Because you just don't invade a country that *actually* has WMD's, unless you want to get WMDed, which by the way shows that the Bush administration knew pertinently well that Iraq had no WMD's prior to invading.
So here it is for all you insensitive clods, Iran is not getting nukes to attack anyone, for that would be pure suicide, they're getting nukes because they don't want to end up like Iraq. Sometimes I wonder what you guys are thinking, but most likely you don't even a second put yourselves in the place of Iranians.
Dumbass. The Apple II's hi-res mode was 280x192.
Thank you for highlighting the very only factual innacuracy in this whole post.
Unfortunately, I no longer know exactly where it is.
Oh, that's too bad. Reminds me that the wrap-drive based ship I built must be out of the solar system by now. Worst part is that the thing got off before I got to fetch my camera, and on top of that I forgot the blueprints in the cabin..
the chance that this one person has received every part from the 1-2% of doomed 360s out there that are failures would be nearly statistically impossible.
Great point, if we accept that 2% figure as a maximum, and we consider there are about 10 million people who have Xboxes (I don't think it's that much actually), then that kind of stuff has 1 chance out of 400,000,000,000 of *ever* happening on Earth. For it to even stand a chance to ever happen, 25% of all Xboxes shall be "doomed".
I leave the conclusion as to why these Xboxes have failed for that guy up to you, I guess all it really reveals is that maybe Xboxes 360's are more fragile than other consoles tho.
1. IMAX at Home
How novel! How revolutionary! A very high-res screen! Let me be the first to predict the 70 GHz CPU, the 40 TB hard drive and the 100 Gbps home internet connection!
2. The Midair Mouse
Other people have pointed out why this idea is flawed, I mean come on, it's obvious enough..
3. The Perfect Machine
If I understand correctly, a quantum computer wouldn't be suited for home/office use, since it's good at performing pretty special kind of operations. Not to mention I don't think we're that close to the quantum computer at all..
4. Extreme Peer-to-Peer
FTFA : The classic point-to-point networking model is fundamentally flawed.
Of course not, it's flawed when it comes to broadcasting, but for anything else on internet, EVEN for video streaming on demand à la YouTube. Besides that, the whole "extreme" P2P isn't worthless, but it's no big deal, and then it will bring its lot of issues, and anyways, that's what caches and proxies have already done for a long time.
5. The Man-Made Brain
Despite the misleading title that suggest it's about strong AI wet dreams, it's pretty interesting, but yeah, not much to say about it..
requiring of extending the "int catchphrase_rating" to "long int catchphrase_rating"
In most implementations a long int is the same thing as an int, I believe you meant long long int ;-)
that would require 2.5GW for the whole year
Two point five gigawatts!!
This is going to be good for some people, but what happens when these people take of the electrodes and discover they still can't walk. I would think it would make them worse.
IANAP, but when I play a with a flight simulator for a few hours, the last thing I want is to fly an actual plane. Same for sex, kind of, so I'd say, if as a paraplegic you took a 4 hour walk in Oblivion or the countryside of San Andreas, you'd want to take an actual walk less than before you started playing, mainly if you use your brain to send walking signals to your disconnected legs.
Your robotic limb point is a great point by the way, I wonder why they don't use the presented technology to control a real wheel-chair rather than a lame virtual avatar, at this point.
Your a looser! LOLOLOL
Err, are you kidding, or not, or french? I'm confused..
Ditto.
But say that 22 yr old had a child, who turned out to be a pretty important guy who could be embarrassed about his fathers misdeeds.
Right, just like George H.W. Bush got embarrassed with this thing about his father Prescott with what he did with the nazis in WWII, or like the Mussolinis have been embarrassed about what their father/grand-father Benitto did (one of his grand-daughters is now a neo-fascist politician in the Parliment IIRC plus a model). And then, if you start to care about the children, then why not about grand-children, and so on, to the point you'd make these 70 years 250?
you == fucking retard
If so, then so was President Johnson.
"after the an internal report"
"a Baltimore sun story"
"fort Meade"
Not to mention grammatical mistakes and some awkward turns of phrases. It all makes me wonder, since when have Slashdot editors stopped editing summaries?
Oh wait..
They are still working on sending a man to Bahgdad and keeping him alive there.
Does it mean that John McCain and that Senator Pence from Illinois didn't really go to a market in Baghdad and come back to the USA?! So it was an hoax too!?
I knew it couldn't be just like "any open-air market in Indiana in the summertime"!
So we can find out the truth about who killed JFK with their magic bullets.
Let me bet a few bucks on Cubans. Castro survived hundreds of american assassination attempts which for a lot of them have been ordered directly by JFK and RFK. Makes sense that the guys who didn't manage to prevent the guy they miserably failed at killing and who succesfully killed the guy they were supposed to protect tried to hide that to avoid sounding incompetent. IIRC, Johnson agrees with me (or maybe it's the other way around..).
Kudos to the cuban guy in charge of Castro's security tho!
The JFK files are due to be released 70 years (the life expectancy) after the facts.
I think it has more to do with protecting people involved. Let's say a 22-year old person was involved, 70 years later he'll be 92, which means most likely dead.
That's the question every developer on the planet would love to answer. "If I saw a whole new genre that needed to be created, I'd probably go create it myself," says Warren Spector. "The fact is, no one can predict a new genre's creation. I feel pretty safe in saying that someone, probably a 12-year-old staring at the ceiling avoiding doing her homework, will create something entirely new in the next 20 years, but I wouldn't presume to say what that might be."
Translation : we don't know what will be created within the next 20 years, but one thing's for sure, new things will be created, and some of them might be created by people who currently are children. Or to make it simpler, we don't know what will happen in the future, but things will happen, and young people who'll grow up in the future will make some of these things happen.
And about how long games should last, what about the next trend is not games which have a defined duration like adventure games do, but rather an undefined duration, like, open ended games? Why should we have nothing but games that can be completed? And why so much emphasis on having stories? If we cared so much about stories when we want to have fun, then how come we now have nothing but plot-less porn movies?